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Haiti | InternationalHaiti: Gunshots Fired at Radio-Tele Ginen
PORT-AU-PRINCE- Gunshots were fired at Radio-Tele Ginen (RTG) during the morning of ![]() ginen1.jpg RTG is popular with both rich and poor in Haiti. The broadcaster is
respected in poor neighborhoods because it often gave a voice to the residents of Lavalas strongholds while the de facto government of 2004-2006 was in power. Delmas Wilson Jeudy, the mayor of the community in which RTG is located, visited the station after the attack. He denounced the "bandits" responsible, but added that he did not believe the attack was part of a campaign to muzzle the press. However, he added that an investigation was being carried out to determine if anything broadcast by RTG might have provoked violence. The director of RTG, Jean Lucien Borges, stated that the attack was typical of other attacks on journalists in Haiti. However, he could not say what, if anything, broadcast by RTG had provoked the attack. Asked what impact the attack would have on the morale of RTG employees Borges replied by comparing RTG to a boat that takes to sea regardless of the weather and "follows its compass" undaunted. Read the entire piece:
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